Category: Network

The density of the network in Japan and the diversity within and outside its shores, and the installation of specialized local operators of civil works, helped to ensure the soundness of the country’s telecommunications network in the aftermath of the earthquake March 11, according to one industry analyst.

However, the fixed communication devices are still vulnerable to eating disorders and the problem will increase as the number of consumer devices networked to the fixed network grows, said David Kennedy, Ovum research director, in a report released Wednesday.

The earthquake of magnitude 9, which also caused tsunami waves has shown that users are increasingly dependent on mobile communication devices, Kennedy said, noting that the telecommunications network traffic grew exponentially after tremor as customers tried to contact loved ones.

Major Japanese telecommunications companies have been restored from various fixed and mobile services in the areas most affected, but the fixed service disruptions remains a challenge. He added that operators are likely to prioritize repairs to the mobile network via the fixed communication because the latter is still vulnerable to rolling blackouts, caused by shortages of energy from nuclear plants damaged.

KDDI that do not work there were 1,500 base stations, down from 3. 800, while Softbank reduces their base stations out of service from 3786 to 1157, he said. NTT DoCoMo also reported that its 2130 phone base stations were not yet out of service, compared to 6720 that were inoperable immediately after the earthquake, he added. [Editor’s Note:. From 1 pm on March 23, local time, the number of base stations inoperable dropped to 840]

The operator also rented satellite phones 830 and 1184 mobile phones, 30 mobile units deployed from the base station and mobile vehicle power supply, mobile power generators 400 and 100 free mobile phone charging stations, to provide access to telecommunications in areas without mobile phone reception.

From 1 pm on March 23 in Japan, NTT East said it restored 90 percent of its 1. 000 exchange offices damaged by the earthquake and the power supply is recovered commercially. He noted that 93 exchange houses and tours of approximately 155 000 have not yet been restored.

The company added that a significant amount of time would be needed to recover the remaining offices, because the damage extended beyond physical harm, and included flooding or broken connection to the backbone transmission lines in areas severely affected, and out of bounds around the damaged nuclear power plant.

Kennedy noted that several undersea cables damaged in the quake, but service providers had been able to resolve the outage efficiently due to the strong network of Japan. And while there were interruptions in international communications as a result of cable breaks reported, the connectivity was “surprisingly strong,” especially when compared with the 2006 earthquake in Taiwan.

Kennedy explained: “The density and diversity of networks within and outside of Japan creates many redundant pathways, which prevented the outage of importance outside the affected areas.

“[In addition], the operators had installed specialized civil works that can cope with earthquakes, having learned many lessons from the Kobe earthquake of 1995. Flexibles underground conduits between the infrastructure of streets and buildings, sliding joints of the ducts to relieve the axial forces and joint flexibility in the access tunnels to wells and others have become common in new installations since 1995, “he said.

Although repair work is progressing steadily, Ovum expects the new issues to the surface in the coming weeks as damaged infrastructure – both on land and at sea – no.

Kenney said the earthquake vibrations can cause the ground to liquefy, damaging wells, pipelines and cables. This would allow water to enter and damage to submarine cable systems, the most network failures weeks after the earthquake, he added.

BALI – Video is the fastest growing application on the contents of the network, with an increase of 90 percent, surpassing the demand for applications in the cloud, according to a managing director of Blue Coat Systems.

This exponential growth of video content is to make the bandwidth congestion, therefore reducing or reduce the effectiveness of business-critical systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), said Mark Urban, senior director of product marketing.

In an interview with ZDNet Asia in the context of the Conference of Blue Coat partners in Asia-Pacific on Thursday, said Urban companies today for ways to maintain secure networks while reducing the bandwidth and makes innovation in the IT space.

The companies are concerned that the external factors that disrupt the delivery of business applications, he said. Is therefore from the perspective of network performance, said it was “dangerous” if a higher bandwidth for content business is not making a slowing of the network.

Urban said: “From forth a budget, we are talking about the loss of real money.”

To increase the video traffic, companies can deploy WAN (Wide Area Network) optimization tools that enable the caching and prepositioning Flow Division of the videos, he said, pointing to the delivery of Blue Coat product. Security vendors believe that these features may permit the companies to free bandwidth to meet the essential needs.

Business benefits of video, too
Urban said the video traffic is not necessarily the content is not only essential business processes, such as YouTube clips. Companies these days also looking for videos, for example, to improve communication between management and employees.

“It also allows you to [Services], to be innovative and do things such as video training. So, instead of employees to physical classes [a place] that now reach around the world and offer training in the shortest time same period, “he said.

Blue Coat CEO Michael Borman also showed that the business software maker SAP, Blue Shield of technology to training videos for your sales force display to use.

“The videos are all there and cached on the server so that employees can access from around the world on it, while reducing the pressure on the bandwidth requirements of SAP,” said Borman.

He likened the service to the Akamai server technology, which stores and distributes content and applications on a local server. “We are like a private Akamai – which can push and pull video content company,” he said.

He said the media company, Thomson Reuters, Blue Shield is also dedicated to give their push and pull of video services.

If on the security threats that may arise from video content has been increasing demand, Urban said the cyber attack with a tactic of using popular video player upgrade. If you click the innocent victims, on the appropriate link, viruses can be downloaded to their computers, he said.

“Not that the virus integrated into the video, but the process [to be a malware infection],” said Urban.

An engineer once Cisco had sued his former employer, alleging that monopolized the business of service and maintenance of Cisco, has been accused by U.S. authorities piracy.

Peter Alfred-Adekeye, who left Cisco in 2005 to form two companies of network support, has been charged with 97 counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer system without authorization for purposes of commercial advantage, according to a warrant. He faces 10 years in prison and a fine of $ 250,000 if convicted of the charges.

Alfred-Adekeye was abruptly stopped by the RCMP in Vancouver on May 20, 2010, while a statement to lawyers for Cisco in its civil case. A Nigerian citizen and resident of Zurich, Alfred-Adekeye only in town for a few days for the deposit, but the U.S. Justice Departmentalerted the Canadian authorities, telling them to look at the Wedgewood Hotel in Vancouver.

U.S. Justice Department charged Alfred-Adekeye use a Cisco employee ID and password to download the software and web access to restricted Cisco, according to the Canadian arrest warrant issued in the case.

The case is still under the seal of the U.S. authorities try to extradite Alfred-Adekeye. His arrest had been reported until this week when the Vancouver media reports of his extradition hearing. Order of Alfred-Adekeye U.S. arrest was issued on May 19, 2010 – the day after he began his statement in Canada – U.S. by Judge Howard Lloyd in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, according to the Order of Canada.

The handsome Alfred-Adekeye has founded two nonprofit efforts designed to promote entrepreneurship – Road to the Entrepreneurial Leadership and the African Network – and is the head of two new companies. In one of his websites are described as “a successful entrepreneur and innovative British royal descent of Africa.”

One company of Alfred-Adekeye, Multivan, sued Cisco in December 2008, accusing the company of monopolizing the business of servicing equipment company Cisco. Cisco forced the owners of equipment such as routers, switches and firewalls to buy SMARTnet service contracts in order to get regular updates and software error correction, Multivan said. By providing updates and bug fixes for customers only and not to third SMARTnet, Cisco banned independent service companies in your team, Multivan course.

SMARTnet Service is a hot topic with some clients who feel that Cisco must provide basic arrangements of errors and software updates for free as Microsoft or Apple do.

Alfred-Adekeye Neither could be immediately or Multivan reached for comment Tuesday, but according to the Vancouver Sun, said his lawyer in court Monday that Cisco and the U.S. Department of Justice according to arrest him for his statement.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cisco, said Tuesday: “We strongly disagree with most of the content of [Vancouver Sun] article,” adding that “extradition is a matter between the two governments.”

After Multivan sued Cisco, the networking giant filed counterclaims against Multivan, Alfred Adekeye and Pingsta, another company founded by Alfred-Adekeye. Multivan offers service and support network equipment from multiple vendors. Pingsta itself as an online platform for companies to hire engineers and cloud-based shopping experience of the network on a pay per use.

The companies settled their civil suit in July 2010, just months after the arrest of Alfred-Adekeye is. Both sides dropped their claims and businesses pay their own legal costs.

COMMUNICASIA, SINGAPORE–Asia returns to this year’s tradeshow with a bigger and better showing, according to the show’s organizer. All four of the new country pavilions at CommunicAsia 2011 come from the region–Thailand’s Telecommunications Research and Industrial Development Institute, Association of Thai Software Industry (ATSI), Goyang Industry Promotion Agency from Korea, and Sri Lanka Export Development Board.

China remains the show’s biggest supporter, with over 50 exhibiting companies from the country. The Zhongguancun pavilion, in particular, occupies a floor area 150 percent bigger than last year.

All photos and captions by Vivian Yeo

The Brunei pavilion houses nine participating companies, including telco TelBru and tracking technology vendor, BruGPS. Also at the show is Infindo, which is showcasing its flagship product, Polygon App Store. The company terms this as a white-label cloud appstore that supports multiple platforms.

Infindo has also partnered software vendor, Expansys, to develop a mobile social app that taps location-based technology to provide a 360 degree-view of what is happening around them. For instance, a person seeking information about a restaurant can see what people have tweeted about the menu as well as whether their friends are there at the same time, a representative explained.

The ATSI pavilion on level 3 of the Sands Expo and Convention Center includes software company Arunsawad Dot Com, which provides cloud-based enterprise mobility products branded as “anywhere to go”. One offering, anywhere2claim, allows motorists to use their mobiles to report accidents to insurers, which can then dispatch an employee to the scene and complete the necessary paperwork via a mobile device. Another product, anywhere2ER, is targeted at hospitals for improved emergency services.

According to co-CEO and president Kittinan Anuphan (extreme right in picture above), two of its offerings have made their way to Indonesia and Canada, and the company is looking to market its products in other parts of the world.

Tucked away at a corner of the exhibition hall in basement 2 is Thai mobile app developer, HLP International. It is showcasing Molome, a photo-sharing site that aims to let users easily share images across social networking sites.

HLP’s project manager Nisakorn Keanmepol said the app is available for download in the Android Market and Nokia’s Ovi Store, while an iOS version is currently in the works.

Korean ICT players are once again out in full force at CommunicAsia, with presence on two different levels of the convention center. Occupying a sizeable portion of Hall F in basement 2 are companies exhibiting under the banners of Kotra (Korean Trade-Investment Promotion Agency) and SBA, a Seoul-based tradeshow organizer.

Prinics, based in the Gyeonggi-do province of South Korea, claims to have created the world’s first smartphone photo printer. The machine looks like an Apple iPod docking station, and specifically allows iPhone and iPod Touch devices to be connected directly. Other mobile form-factors such as the iPad and Android-based devices can be connected via USB cable.

Priced at US$150, the printer makes 4×6-inch prints of JPEG images, and each cartridge–costing US$15–can create 36 prints. To use the printer, users must download the Bolle photo application from Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market.

The company is currently looking for distributors in markets such as Singapore, according to a representative at the booth.

After noticing curious Bing search results, then run a covert operation to find out more, Google has concluded that Microsoft is copying the Google search results on your own search engine.

That’s the report from Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land, on Tuesday, who spoke to both companies and provided evidence about Google. According to the report, a mechanism could be the Suggested Sites feature of Internet Explorer and Bing toolbar for browsers, which can get data about what people click on links when running searches.

The story started with the Google team to correct typographical errors in the search terms, which controls its own performance rivals close. Typo fix that could lead to Google search results based on the correction, but the team found Bing also lead to the search results without saying that it had corrected the typo.

Then came the sting, creating a “trap” to capture the operation in action. Google has created a “time code to enable it manually classify a page for a certain period”, then wired the results of specific terms, very dark search as “hiybbprqag” and “ndoswiftjobinproduction,” Sullivan said. With hand coding, typing search terms recognizable produce Web pages in Google results not shown in search results differently.

Then, Google was kind used in the search terms from home using Internet Explorer with the two suggested sites and Bing toolbar enabled, clicking the first results on the fly. Before the experiment, and Bing and Google returns the results of manual coding, but two weeks later, Bing Google displays the results of which were coded by hand.

Microsoft did not say today whether it plans to continue to practice, but clearly not considered “cheating”, as Google does.

In a comment to sister site ZDNet Asia ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft said flatly: “You can not copy the Google results.” However, that denial is more a matter of interpretation.

A blog post Harry Shum, Microsoft corporate vice president of Bing, offered few details about what Microsoft did. Recognized control what users click on links, but basically described as letting humans to gather information through crowdsourcing.

We use more than 1,000 different signals and features in the classification algorithm. A small piece of navigation data obtained from some of our customers, who choose to share anonymous data as they navigate the web to help improve the experience for all users.

To be clear, we can learn from our customers. What we have seen in today’s story was a fictional spy maneuver to generate extreme outliers queue query [query rare] ranking. It was a creative tactic by a competitor, and we take it as a compliment back of the hand. But do not accurately represent how the use of opt-in data customers as one of the many contributions to help improve our user experience.

The history of the site and improving a wide range of consumer experiences and business is really the history of collective intelligence, exchange of HTML documents with hypertext links to click on data and beyond. Many Internet companies through the collective intelligence used to make their products better every day.

Google made it clear he is not happy.

“I have no problem with competition, the development of an innovative algorithm. But copying is not innovation, in my book,” Sullivan cites researcher and expert search Google daily Amit Singhal. “You’re kidding me, because we work very hard and have done for years, but only reached on the basis of our work … Another analogy is that it’s like running a marathon and lead someone on his back, jumping just before the finish line. ”

And in a statement of ZDNet sister site CNET News Asia, Singhal added that Google does not agree with the position of Microsoft, speaking so strongly as Microsoft denies copying:

Our tests have concluded that Bing is the copy of results from Google website.

Google strongly believes in innovation and are proud of our search quality. We hope to compete with search algorithms really new there, Bing and other – algorithms based on innovation in central and recycling search results copied from a competitor.

Google did not respond to questions about whether plans CNET actions spread beyond the trap.

Google their concerns to Sullivan, shortly before an event Bing search today. Coincidence or not, Google just changed the agenda of the event significantly. In fact, the problem of finding a copy to become the focus of a debate between representatives of Microsoft and Google in the conference.

Stefan Weitz, director of Microsoft’s search engine Bing, Sullivan share this response with “Opt-in programs such as the toolbar [Google] will help with navigation data [information that shows that Microsoft links people click in], one of the input signals from many other search engines use to help sites rank. This “experiment of Google seems to be a trick to confuse and manipulate some of these signs.”

Hack, experiment, or trap, is very revealing. Google has created about 100 of the code by hand the results, Sullivan said, so it’s hard to imagine the results that distort the act of finding a meaningful way. The next important question will be whether Microsoft concludes that it is time to update its search algorithm for the search itself Bing “hiybbprqag” will not lead to information on tickets for the Wiltern Theater more.